Watching Blizzard: No, really, what are we supposed to do for two weeks?
Rossi posed the question of what everyone’s doing before the WoW expansion launches an...
2018-08-01 08:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Blizzard Watch posts
Watching Blizzard: Want news? We’ve got news
Monday newsday! While we haven’t yet hit the exciting event of the week (i.e. tomorrow’s rollout of the next chuck of World of Warcraft pre-expansion story), there’s plenty to talk abou...
2018-07-31 01:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostLore Watch Episode 80: Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe take a look at Warbringers: Jaina, and Jaina’s life in general – which dovetails nicely into WoW’s pre-expansion War of the Thorns event, and the ...
2018-07-29 22:30:31 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: We’re all about Overwatch League (again)
If you've been reading these silly things for long, you know how much I like to wax poetic about my favorite underdog Overwatch League team, the Shanghai Dragons. Since the regular season — and the ...
2018-07-28 05:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: No one tell her
So, do you think High Inquisitor Whitemane in Heroes of the Storm knows she became a Death Knight in
Watching Blizzard: Also there's a chicken
In the Boomsday Project trailer, poor Peter Whalen was turned into a chicken and I don't think anyone is sufficiently worried about that. Even in the most recent card reveal stream, Brian Kib...
2018-07-26 04:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostBlizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Episode 180
Hi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can 2018-07-25 22:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Blizzard: Everything’s coming up Peacebloom
There's a lot going on out in the world of Blizzard, but it's a relatively quiet day on Blizzard Watch. So let's hit up the features on the site today and then move on to the other news.
The...
2018-07-25 04:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: The word of the day is...
Jaina. The word is definitely Jaina. And if you try to tell me that Jaina is a name, not a word, I will counter that it can be both. Today, we got a whisper of Jaina's story, and it was ...
2018-07-24 04:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe story of Firiun, Protection Paladin of the Alliance
By Anne Stickney
This character profile has been written for Firiun, one of our supporters. If you enjoy it, you can 2018-07-23 21:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Blizzard: It's all about the sparkle
Who's ready for the weekend? Me. Definitely me. And probably you, too. So let's check out the news and then head off into a weekend full of video games and Netflix and, I don't know, whatever else you...
2018-07-21 02:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe story of Erumarä, Mage of the Horde
By Matthew Rossi
This character profile has been written for Erumarä, one of our supporters. If you enjoy it, you can 2018-07-20 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Blizzard: It's been a post-patch sort of day
It may not be patch day anymore, but that doesn’t mean our problems are over. Patch day was a bit shaky and there are still plenty of bugs, which is probably why Ion Hazzikostas spent 2018-07-20 06:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Episode 179
Hi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can 2018-07-18 21:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Blizzard: Busy bees
It's patch day in World of Warcraft, and the servers are back up and running patch 8.0.1. Mostly. As with any patch day, there's been some small, itsy bitsy amount of instability. (I'm starti...
2018-07-18 02:32:33 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: A new beginning
Ah, the day before the day. In the morning the WoW servers will go down and patch 8.0 will start rolling out. It's the end of a lot of things, but it's also a new beginning. Battle for Az...
2018-07-17 04:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostLore Watch Episode 79: A Legion retrospective
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe decided to use this last Sunday before the launch of 8.0 to take a look back at the lore and story of Legion as a whole. What worked? What didn’t? Was...
2018-07-15 22:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: It’s quiet… maybe too quiet…
After the big reveal that patch 8.0 is arriving on Tues...
2018-07-13 21:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: And now we know!
The big news came late in the day on Thursday. (I was in Antorus fighting Coven at the time, but fortunately Mitch responded to my SOS and wrote it up so I didn’t have to try to summarize all things...
2018-07-13 07:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: Back to enjoying Overwatch League
Finally! Overwatch League has returned to us: the playoffs kicked off tonight and they'll be going on for three weeks. So we're back to the glorious days of esports (though done with the glorious days...
2018-07-12 04:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostBlizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Episode 178
Hi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can 2018-07-11 21:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Blizzard: This Tuesday is patch day, next Tuesday is probably patch day...
These days, Blizzard has enough games to make Tuesday always patch day. Which is to say that even though World of Warcraft didn't get 8.0, we still had two patches roll out today. (M...
2018-07-11 01:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: On our way to the expansion (but not that fast)
Another day over, another day closer to Battle for Azeroth. But maybe not that close (yet) because we probably won’t have a pre-patch this week. (I got to break out our fab Illidan no GIF a...
2018-07-10 03:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: Another day, another...?
It's a relatively quiet day in the world of Blizzard (which is not actually the same as Blizzard World), so let's take a brief stroll through the news and then get to our games.
You're going...
2018-07-07 02:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: Discombobulated
Is it the end of the week? The beginning of the week? With a holiday landing right in the center of the work-week, I've spent all day typing away and trying to decide.
I'm still not sure.
So i...
2018-07-06 04:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: Happy holidays everyone!
I'm just going to say that if you didn't hear that headline in Jack Skellington's voice I am disappointed in you. Sure, it isn't Christmas or Halloween, but it's still a holiday (at least for some of ...
2018-07-04 01:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostBlizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Episode 177
Hi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can 2018-07-03 22:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Blizzard: At least it's a short week
Ah, another terrible and thrilling work-week is upon us (at least for those of us on weekday grind). But it's (hopefully) the end of the workday for everyone reading this, so let's ignore the outside ...
2018-07-03 00:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostLore Watch Episode 78: What are souls, anyway?
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe jump into answering your emails, but get distracted by a lengthy discussion about the Light, death, undeath, the naaru, what happens after you die, Cali...
2018-07-01 22:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Blizzard: It's still all about Artifacts
It's a few days after Blizzard decided to max out everyone's Artifacts, and it's still all anyone's talking about. (2018-06-30 03:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post